Milestones & Firsts

Since 2003 we haveused the power of scientific research, expeditions, social and traditional media and a television series on PBS to share our message with the world. Here’s a list of key awards, publications, honors and “firsts,” since our founding over a decade ago.

2014

Carl Safina completes his new book, Beyond Words, due out in summer, 2015, published by Holt.

Blue Ocean Institute changes its name to The Safina Center.

Carl Safina announced as a finalist for the 2014 Indianapolis Prize, a biennial prize in global wildlife conservation.

Safina Center Fellow, Paul Greenberg publishes his third book American Catch: The Fight For Our Local Seafood, to critical acclaim.

Carl Safina is lead scientist on the GYRE expedition to the southwest coast of Alaska and Aleutian Islands.

National Geographic premieres documentary video of GYRE expedition. Now available free at any time on NationalGeographic.com.

Over a quarter of a million visits to Blue Ocean Institute’s new website this year.
Stony Brook University establishes the Carl Safina Endowed Research Professorship for Nature and Humanity, Long Island, NY.

A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout named to Top Ten List by the Project on Government Oversight.

Carl Safina receives Ocean Hero Award from Diver magazine.

Research scientists Alan Duckworth and J.I. Peterson’s “Effects of seawater temperature and pH on the boring rates of the sponge Cliona celata in scallop shells” published in September issue of Marine Biology.

Carl Safina selected as “Long Island’s Man of the Year in Science” by the Times Beacon Record.

2011

Safina’s fifth book –The View from Lazy Point; A Natural Year in an Unnatural World – published in January to rave reviews.

Safina profiled in the The New York Times.

Safina’s fifth book –The View from Lazy Point; A Natural Year in an Unnatural World – published in January to rave reviews.

Safina profiled in the The New York Times.

Safina’s sixth book – A Sea in Flames; The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout – published in April to excellent reviews.

Both books selected as The New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice.”

Safina is interviewed on PBS, NPR, in magazines from TIME to Rolling Stone, and on dozens of other stations.

Mercury in Fish Project launched in collaboration with The Gelfond Fund for Mercury Related Research & Outreach at Stony Brook University.

Safina becomes co-chair of steering committee for the Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University. The Center is an innovative collaboration between SBU’s Journalism School and the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.

Safina’s “Darwinism Must Die Go So That Darwin May Live” published in The New York Times.

Hardt and Safina’s “Threatening Ocean Life from the Inside Out” published in Scientific American.

Next Wave’s Ocean Science Literacy Workshops raise awareness of the ocean and Google Earth technology for English Language Learning students.

Safina’s “A Future for U.S. Fisheries” published in Issues in Science and Technology. (President Barack Obama’s article was also in this journal.)

FishPhone receives a Best in Green award by Ideal Bite, a green-living website.

FishPhone receives major media coverage from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times to Bon Appetit, Gourmet, Condé Nast Traveler and Parade magazine (resulting in 4,000 queries in a single day.)

Safina addresses a conference convened by the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard and the National Association of Evangelicals to help create a conservation-oriented “Urgent Call to Action.”

Safina awarded Bianimale Foundation Fellowship.

2005

Blue Ocean’s Hawaii-based Marine Ecology and Fishery Specialist, Eric Gilman, produces “Catch Fish, Not Turtles,” a booklet in several languages created to help fishermen avoid catching sea turtles while fishing.

Safina receives an Honorary Doctorate from State University of New York.

Safina and four co-authors’ “U.S. Ocean Fish Recovery;Staying the Course” published in Science Magazine.

2004

Lee gives an invited talk at the World Bank, bringing global attention to ocean conservation and the importance of seafood sustainability as a food security concern.

Safina and Chasis’ “Saving the Oceans” published in Issues in Science and Technology.